The ‘My Green Home Rating Tool’ is Australia’s most comprehensive online rating tool, relevant for all new and existing homes in every state, territory and climate zone in Australia.
If you’re looking to build, renovate or just makes some general changes to your home, the My Green Home Rating Tool can help you identify and implement changes that will save you money on power and water bills, add to the value of your home and improve the overall efficiency of your home.
This tool has been developed in a partnership between Green Homes Australia and Skillset and is built on a combined experience of 50 years in the housing and construction industry.
How does it work?
Upon purchasing the My Green Home Rating Tool, you will be issued with password details and directed to the login portal. The tool will require you to complete 3 questionnaires, which will assess the Comfort, Affordability and Environmental Impact of your home. Once complete you will be provided with an immediate preliminary score and brief report on your home, generated from the information you have provided.
From there, our technical staff will analyse your submitted questionnaires and provide you with a comprehensive assessment which will outline how you can implement changes to achieve a sustainable, efficient and environmentally friendly home. This report will be e-mailed to you within 3 working days.
If you would like to talk to someone please contact the My Green Home Rating Tool team at Green Homes Australia on, 1300 724 661. We can walk you through the process.
Tool Development
Background:
Humans have been building shelters for thousands of years. From the bark and timber structures of Aboriginal societies to the palaces of ancient Rome, the type of housing in any particular place was driven by what worked in the local environment. In other words, climate, materials and available technology combined with generations of experience led to certain types of housing in different places. Think about the mud and thatch huts of rural Africa which are cheap and easy to build, cool in summer and last well.
However, over the last century in Australia, materials and energy have been getting cheaper and cheaper to the point where we really don’t have to bother thinking about all the things that people have been concerned with for thousands of years. It’s only since electricity and materials have started to become noticeably expensive recently that the message of home sustainability has become more main-stream.
Skillset and Green Homes Australia have gone back to the ancient wisdom and combined it with modern materials and technology to develop 38 principles that make a home sustainable. We’re not the only ones to be thinking about this either; the Federal Government site yourhome.gov.au, the Australian Institute of Architects “Environmental Design Guide” and many other organisations are ‘in this space’.
There are 2 things that make our approach special;
1. Our holistic view of what makes a good home. That is, we consider comfort, affordability and low environmental impact.
2. The way we have designed a web-based tool to take you through the 39 principles in a user-friendly journey.
There are plenty of resources on-line that will help you calculate how much carbon you might emit or that will tell you what thermal mass is – if you know who to trust and have the time to chase it up. The My Green Home Rating Tool brings the knowledge together into one place, providing you with a learning experience as you complete to tool and providing you with a detailed report to inspire you in where you could make changes. You can also call one of our Green Builders for personal advice.
Technical Info:
The MGHRT is a multiple choice quiz with a ‘back-end’ that analyses answers to questions around the 38 principles. Since some options rank better than others, the tool is able to provide a score for each section. Technical staff then compile a more detailed report based on the individual responses. If more still more detail is required our Green Builders are available for further conversation.
Green Homes Australia and Skillset are both based in Central NSW and have a combined 50 years’ experience in the building and construction industry. Green Homes Australia continue to build Award Winning homes and Skillset place and train hundreds of trade apprentices each year. GHA and Skillset have also developed a “Green Tick” business coaching program and are currently developing a Green Trade Training Program. Skillset has recently been responsible for construction of the $8 million Flannery Centre, a ‘world’s best practice’ green skills and sustainability training centre in Bathurst, NSW.
You can get immediate access to the most innovative, unique and realistic home efficiency rating tool in Australia, and the only online rating tool that services both new and existing homes in every state, territory and climate zone for only $99!
